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1) The bad girl
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On a London street in broad daylight, world traveler Amity Doncaster is trapped in a carriage with a blade-wielding man in a black silk mask who whispers the most vile taunts and threats into her ear. Thanks to quick thinking and her secret weapon, Amity escapes with her life. But the monster known as the Bridegroom, who has left a trail of female victims in his wake, has survived the wounds she inflicted and will soon be on his feet again.
9) Loop group
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anticipating the onset of her later years, Maggie leaves behind her manipulative daughters to accompany her best friend, Connie, for one final fling, but a series of misadventures prompts their desperate, gun-toting journey to a Texas ranch.
10) Sea of poppies
Author
Series
Ibis trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois who died fighting with guerillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Shai is a young woman in modern India. Lost and drifting, she travels to her country’s Northeast and rediscovers, through her encounters with indigenous communities, ways of being that realign and renew her. Evelyn is a student of science in Edwardian England. Inspired by Goethe’s botanical writings, she leaves Cambridge on a quest to wander the sacred forests of the Lower Himalayas. Linnaeus, a botanist and taxonomist who famously declared 'God...
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Timothy Gandy has kept his lifetime's ambition secret for forty years. Now, suddenly (if tragically) released from the hen-pecked tedium of his ordinary existence, he is unexpectedly free to realise his dreams. He will embark on a Grand Tour of Europe, following in the footsteps of the aristocrats of the eighteenth century. He anticipates high art, culture and pleasant weather. He never expected to encounter new friendships - and possibly even love...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate -- bossy,...
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